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• Post #4502307

  A Russian ballistic missile hit the Zaporizhstal steel mill in southern Ukraine as workers were heading to shelters after an air raid alert, the plant's parent group says. Seven people were reportedly killed and 21 wounded, and the mill has stopped work completely. https://tvrain.tv/news/posle-rossijskoj-ataki-polnostju-ostanovilas-zaporozhstal-sem-chelovek-pogibli-21-ranen-574700/

• Post #4461791

  Finland has no Patriot missiles to give Ukraine & Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen won't say what air defense it is sending. As a frontline state, he said, Finland can't endanger its own readiness. US industry can cover the acute shortage, he said, but it's slowed by bureaucracy. https://www.is.fi/politiikka/art-2000012190107.html

• Post #4422756

  A Russian military court sentenced two Ukrainian POWs, Dmytro Horiainov and Roman Ponomarenko, to a maximum-security prison for 18 and 19 years for serving in the Azov Battalion. Russia has also added both men to its official registry of “terrorists and extremists.” https://zona.media/news/2026/08/06/azov

• Post #4401246

  A car bombing outside Yekaterinburg killed the driver & left Vladimir Tkachuk, creator of Russia's Upyr attack drones, in intensive care. It was the 2nd attack in a week on the head of a Russian drone firm: on July 29, a gunman in Tula shot Andrey Cherezov, owner of another drone supplier, 3 times. https://www.agents.media/pod-ekaterinburgom-soversheno-vtoroe-za-nedelyu-pokushenie-na-proizvoditelya-dronov/

• Post #4395559

  FSO guards & National Guard troops sealed off a Moscow cemetery for the burial of a major general said to have died in the Aug. 1 restaurant bombing that killed 5 people, according to the Telegram channel VChK-OGPU. Russian Ground Forces and Aerospace Forces flags were spotted. https://t.me/astrapress/121354

• Post #4390170

  Russian ballistic missiles & drones hit the Kyiv region, killing at least 15 people, Ukrainian officials say. There's a reported ammonia leak, & residents are likely trapped under rubble. Moscow claims the attack hit logistics hubs holding military cargo & producing drones. https://t.me/tkachenkotymur/2623

• Post #4384889

  Odd: Candidates in St. Petersburg's local races got a warning call "from above," a source told Fontanka, and that evening began renaming / deleting their social media accounts. Two candidates have already been thrown off the ballot, one for a link to a banned network, another over copyrighted music. https://t.me/fontankaspb/108498

• Post #4379117

  things my five year old daughter has said on this road trip: in the car, after hours of travel: "I'm almost tired, and I'm probably hungry." after the second night at our airbnb: "there's no dreams in that bed."

• Post #4378220

  Update on yesterday's Gelendzhik beach attack: Four of the seven people killed when a Ukrainian drone came down were children. Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova says three more are hospitalized, one of them underwent surgery. https://t.me/tvrain/108619

• Post #4377550

  interesting promo...

• Post #4377445

  A Russian soldier killed two men, 71 and 59, and a 64-year-old woman when he opened fire in a village near Sevastopol in Crimea, the city's governor says. A fellow serviceman was also killed and four people wounded. https://www.agents.media/v-krymu-voennyj-zastrelil-sosluzhivtsa-i-treh-mirnyh-zhitelej-im-mozhet-byt-21-letnij-saratovets-obvinyavshijsya-v-krazhe/

• Post #4377031

  Overnight Russian strikes killed four civilians in two Ukrainian cities, officials say: two girls, 5 and 10, and an elderly woman in Sumy, hit by guided bombs, and an 89-year-old woman in Mykolaiv. Seven were hurt there, including girls aged 2 and 12. https://t.me/hryhorov_oleg/3026

• Post #4368284

  Telegram has reportedly disappeared from the App Store in Russia and supposedly also in Turkey and the USA. (It's still visible in the Play Store from here in America for me.) https://t.me/tass_agency/388580

• Post #4368028

  Ukraine will never join NATO, former commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny said, calling the alliance outdated (😏), though he conceded that Ukraine still needs technology NATO countries have. Kyiv's future lies in a European bloc yet to be formed, he said. https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/news/2026/08/3/7242871/

• Post #4357751

  A Ukrainian drone hit a crowded beach near Gelendzhik in southern Russia, killing 6 people, 3 of them children. About 40 more were hurt, 17 of them hospitalized. Footage shows the drone flying into beachgoers, OSINT analysts say the trajectory suggests it lost control after being damaged or jammed. https://www.agents.media/rabota-pvo-mogla-privesti-k-padeniyu-drona-na-plyazh-pod-gelendzhikom-i-gibeli-rebenka-i-treh-vzroslyh/

• Post #4213913

  Naoero, formerly Nauru, has cut ties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgia's Foreign Ministry says. Now only four UN members recognize the independence of Georgia's two breakaway regions: the Cool Kids Club of Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Syria. https://mfa.gov.ge/statements-by-mfa/063124-saqartvelos-sagareo-saqmeta-saministros-gantskhadeba

• Post #4206251

  just unlocked a new Gen Z teen anxiety that i didnt even know existed: panicking when being told to use cash instead of contactless pay

• Post #4204698

  Sberbank cut its forecast for Russian economic growth in 2026 to as low as zero and said it may set aside more for bad loans, citing drone strikes on Wildberries that have disrupted operations and caused losses for tens of thousands of small ​businesses. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russias-sberbank-may-raise-reserves-after-wildberries-attacks-hit-borrowers-2026-07-29/

• Post #4203998

  Economics analyst Bogdan Bakaleyko spoke to the "Chto Sluchilos" podcast yesterday about the Wildberries warehouse attacks. He says the company essentially relies on political protection from its lenders, who could march in and carve up the over-borrowed business whenever they want. https://meduza.io/en/brief/2026/07/29/testing-the-state

• Post #4200329

  Not sure how this is even remotely realistic, but it's a good indication of where U.S. ideas about the war currently float.

• Post #4194753

  Following the FSB's facilitating-terrorism charges against Pavel Durov, Russians should make no payments inside Telegram until the security agency and federal censor Roskomnadzor issue guidance, lawmaker Andrey Svintsov told state news agency TASS. https://t.me/rbc_news/153918

• Post #4194498

  Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a new interview that Yeltsin's "transfer of power" to Putin was divine intervention. Putin has rejected the "handover" framing in favor of constitutional legitimacy, but he's increasingly embraced the "God is on our side" rhetoric. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8847274

• Post #4182582

  A woman was killed and a man wounded in a Ukrainian missile strike that hit an apartment building in Taganrog, in Russia's Rostov region, according to Governor Yuri Slyusar, who says residents are being evacuated and a temporary shelter has been set up. https://t.me/shot_shot/98266

• Post #4172886

  EV & hybrid sales in Russia rose 1.8x in 3 weeks, Autostat reports, and charging sessions on Rosatom's network are up about 80% in a month. Dealers have scrapped discounts, and the wait for a Russian-made "Evolute" is now 2–3 months. https://thebell.io/elektromobili-stali-zaryazhat-eshche-bolshe-iz-za-toplivnogo-krizisa https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8845961

• Post #4169607

  Installing weapons on civilian vessels is prohibited by international law, but some Russian officials want to arm grain ships with machine guns and mobile missile launchers, Bloomberg reports, after Ukrainian drone strikes halted Sea of Azov trade for two weeks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/russia-proposes-arming-grain-ships-in-azov-sea-with-machine-guns?srnd=homepage-uk

• Post #4168038

  No major announcements following Zelensky's meeting with Trump today, but no blowups either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• Post #4167816

  Lindsey Graham's dying effort to pass another round of sanctions on Russia (and Iran) reportedly has a new bipartisan deal in the Senate. "Some Democratic lawmakers oppose the bill" — a bill that would grant Trump even more "blanket tariff" power. Eh, I'm sure he'll use it wisely. Right? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/us-senators-announce-deal-on-new-russia-iran-sanctions-bill

• Post #4165236

  Nikita Zezin, 68, scolded a group of young boys for riding ATVs across his experimental crops near Yekaterinburg. After he called their parents, their roided fathers showed up in 4 SUVs and beat him up. Zezin was hospitalized and died nine days later. Federal investigators are investigating. https://t.me/truekpru/209054

• Post #4164981

  Russia's Omsk region has lifted all limits on fuel sales at gas stations, the first region in the country to do so, Governor Vitaly Khotsenko said. The caps, in place since June 22, held drivers to about 10.5 gallons of gasoline and 21 gallons of diesel. https://t.me/YourNewsTalk/57648

• Post #4164762

  A Russian court has banned the North Caucasus SOS Crisis Group, which helps domestic violence victims & LGBTQ people in southern Russia, as an "extremist" org. The group says it will keep taking cases anyway: helping with evacs, consultations, medical and psych care, though this ruling adds new risks. https://t.me/paperpaper_ru/70794